Text comprehension and production in university students: text reformulation

This paper sets out to report on findings about features of task-specific reformulation observed in university students in the middle stretch of the Psychology degree course (N=58) and in a reference group of students from the degree courses in Modern Languages, Spanish and Library Studies (N=33) fr...

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Autores principales:	Tittarelli, Ana María, Piacente, Telma
Formato:	Articulo Comunicacion
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2006
Materias:	Psicología Educación Superior tratamiento de textos alumno reading comprehension; summary reformulation; comprehensive reformulation; productive reformulation; text production
Acceso en línea:	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/13807 http://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas/pr.716/pr.716.pdf
Aporte de:	SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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spellingShingle	Psicología Educación Superior tratamiento de textos alumno reading comprehension; summary reformulation; comprehensive reformulation; productive reformulation; text production Tittarelli, Ana María Piacente, Telma Text comprehension and production in university students: text reformulation
topic_facet	Psicología Educación Superior tratamiento de textos alumno reading comprehension; summary reformulation; comprehensive reformulation; productive reformulation; text production
description	This paper sets out to report on findings about features of task-specific reformulation observed in university students in the middle stretch of the Psychology degree course (N=58) and in a reference group of students from the degree courses in Modern Languages, Spanish and Library Studies (N=33) from the National University of La Plata (Argentina). Three types of reformulation were modeled: summary reformulation, comprehensive and productive reformulation.The study was based on a corpus of 621 reformulations rendered from different kinds of text. The versions obtained were categorised according to the following criteria: presence or absence of normative, morphosyntactic and semantic difficulties. Findings show that problems arise particularly with paraphrase and summary writing. Observation showed difficulties concerning punctuation, text cohesion and coherence , and semantic distortion or omission as regards extracting and/or substituting gist, with limited lexical resources and confusion as to suitability of style/register in writing. The findings in this study match those of earlier, more comprehensive research on the issue and report on problems experienced by a significant number of university students when interacting with both academic texts and others of a general nature. Moreover, they led to questions, on the one hand, as to the nature of such difficulties, which appear to be production-related problems and indirectly account for inadequate text comprehension, and on the other hand, as to the features of university tuition when it comes to text handling.
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title	Text comprehension and production in university students: text reformulation
title_short	Text comprehension and production in university students: text reformulation
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Text comprehension and production in university students: text reformulation

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